irc in the age of social media
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IRCs are older than internet, but they are dying now. The 'all beautiful' text chat services like Facebook chats etc are replacing the ugly looking IRCs. What can be done to save IRCs?TRANSCRIPT
IRC in the age of Social media
IRC is an old fashioned chat system
Its a complicated setup
Its ugly....
Social media...
Thats where we live now!
Its attractive
But....
Facts -
• "Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found." - The Wall Street Journal.
Why is the 'current generation' still addicted to Social media?
Unaware of IRCs....the better communication platform!
Scrollback....trying to build the next generation IRC
• Scrollback is a free and open source platform that hosts online discussions for communities.
• It is the bridge between conventional IRCs and the modern day's chat platforms with better UIs.
What are we trying to do different?
• Integrating IRC with chatrooms.
• Better UI for users.
• Using NLP (AI) to group messages together, to form more meaningful
conversations.
• Making discussions more search optimized.
• Linking twitter hastags and handles to a room, for logging all thats
trending about the topic on the social media.
Let the 'current generation' also have the safer, better communication platform...
Thank you
